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Title: Teenage Motherhood: Social and Economic Consequences
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Moore, Kristin Anderson Hofferth, Sandra L. Caldwell, Steven B. Waite, Linda J. |
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Teenage Motherhood: Social and Economic Consequences Working Paper URI 243000, The Urban Institute, Washington DC, 1979 Cohort(s): Young Women Publisher: Urban Institute Keyword(s): Age at First Birth; Educational Attainment; Family Resources; Fertility; First Birth; Marriage; Occupational Status; Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID); Schooling; Teenagers This report focuses on the effects of early childbearing on the later social and economic status of the mother and her family; specifically, on education, family size, marriage and marital instability, participation in the labor force and earnings, welfare receipt, and poverty. Each of these outcomes has been studied separately. In addition, the interrelationships between these outcomes have been studied within causal models. These models explore the indirect as well as the direct effects of a woman's age at first childbirth. |
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Moore, Kristin Anderson, Sandra L. Hofferth, Steven B. Caldwell and Linda J. Waite. "Teenage Motherhood: Social and Economic Consequences." Working Paper URI 243000, The Urban Institute, Washington DC, 1979. |